ABSTRACT
Flexagons are geometric objects with a mathematical flavor, so are an appropriate choice for a classroom exploration at a number of levels. In fact, the first author still remembers his first introduction to flexagons in a fourth grade math class (He recently found some of his models after an unusually thorough spring cleaning!). However, this accessibility does not imply that flexagons are easily understood objects. To the contrary, we have found flexagons to have an unusually rich structure. In this article, we hope to introduce the reader to some of the basic members of the flexagon family and give some indications of how one can go about and analyze them.
